Saturday, July 26, 2014

What do terrorists countries you do when another country is about to elect new government? You assassinate politicians that may oppose you, especially those that are popular.

Over this weekend there were two assassinations i Ukraine. One of them was successful. This morning the mayor of Kremenchuk (Poltava region) Oleh Babayev was shot three times from the passing car as he was trowing out the garbage. He died from the wounds. He was very popular and supported new government.

Last night a house of the mayor of Lvov (major city) was hit with an anti-tank missile. Luckily him and his family was out of town. Needless to say he is also very popular and the size of his city makes him a powerful politician.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Ukrainian government announced that they found a mass grave in the city of Sloviansk they just took from the rebels. While they think it was used for the burial of "separatist" who died in fighting there are also bodies of civilians who disappeared earlier under suspicious circumstances. There say that it is suspected that there are more such graves.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

For next year both Poland and Russia were planing Polish Year in Russia and Russian Year in Poland. It was supposed to be a big deal, dozens of large concerts and theatrical plays in both countries (87 in Russia) and now Poland cancelled all of them.
Poland is the only European country that went this far with sanctions against Russia, but as Polish Foreign Minister explained having these kind of exchange in light of what is going on was just wrong.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Apparently liberals in both Congress ans Senate are working on 30 million of Green Cards for "undocumented" (also known as "illegals") from South America. Poles who just want easier access to the Visas* are out of luck.

(* Visa - a document issued by a country's government allowing the holder to enter (or to make a formal request to enter) or to leave that country :)

The missile system suspected of being used in the suspected shoot down of MH17 over Ukraine is the Russian-made BUK surface-to-air system. It has been known for some time that Russians "gave" those missiles to the "rebels" and that they were already used to shot down several Ukrainian aircraft already.

It's needless to say that those missiles are not easy to operate and that home grown terrorist could not fire them. In other word rebels could not lunch them either. It had to be trained troops, most likely from Russia pretending to be "rebels".

It was reported that the rebels bragged about the downing on the Russian version of Facebook, before deleting the post. In that post, the rebels wrote about shooting down a Ukrainian military cargo plane. Now they deny shooting it down.

Also: it is possible that there were 23 Americans on the board.

Also #2: Russian troops control accident site.

BTW: Does anybody still believe that Russians did not shoot down Polish plane with Polish President, know Putin's enemy, on the board in 2010?

This is a third plane shut down by Russians or Russian "separatists" (in other words Russian spacial forces) in the last 7 days. Yesterday Russian fighter jet brought down Ukrainian fighter jet over Ukrainian territory (in other words committing an act of war), and on Monday Ukrainian transport plane was brought down (both pilot were killed) with a missile.

There also reports that Russian jets attacked residential buildings in the same region with multiple civilian deaths.

A Malaysian passenger plane has been shot down as it flew above eastern Ukraine, according to aviation sources.

The plane, which is believed to have been flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 295 people on board, was travelling at an altitude of 10km (6.2 miles) when it was shot down, the Russian news agency Inferfax reported.

Ukraine's government confirmed that a Malaysian passenger airline crashed in the east of the country, close to Russian border. A presidential statement is expected to be released shortly.

The plane crashed in the war zone where Ukraine's government forces and Russia-backed separatists where two Ukrainian military planes had been shot down in the past week. Ukraine's government blamed Russia for it.